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Register-Guard, Eugene, Ore. 3 A Wed., July 13, 1955 Group Split On Road Plan o Congressmen. Mull Federal Financing WASHINGTON Wl The House Public Work Commit tee Wednesday turned down, 19-14, President Eisenhower's plan to finance a vast road building program with bonds. The President had proposed letting up a new government corporation to sell 30 -year bonds. The committee didn't reach a vote on a substitute Demo cratic plan to pay for the new roada through immediate in creases in federal taxes on gasoline, trucks, heay tires and tubes and dicscl fuclk ' WASHINGTON WV-The House Public Works Committee was split several ways Wednesday over how to raise 37 billion dol lars to pay the federal share of a proposed 12-year road-building program. For this reason, committee members doubted they could com plete action on a highway bill et a closed-door session Wednesday. Several key members predicted approval of a subcommittee plan to raise gasoline taxes from 2 to 3 cents a gallon and to hike taxes tn trucks, diescl fuel, truck tires and tubes. These increases would bring in more than 800 million dollars a yeir. LAST-DITCH STAND But oilier J promised a las'.' ditch stand in the committee fur President Eisenhower's plan to create a new government corpo ration to finance the building program through long-term bonds which would not be chargeable to the national debt. Still others called for a com promise to pay part of the road bill through immediate tax in creases and part through bonds. Some members wanted to drop the whole program and others wanted to pass the buck on fi nancing tn the House Ways and Means Committee, which tradi tionally starts all tax bills in Congress. PRESSING FOR ACTION Both Eisenhower and Demo cratic congressional leaders arc pressing for action on the biggest federal-state highway program ever projected. The program calls for 24 bil lions In federal funds and about 2'4 billions In state funds to com plete a 40,000-milo network of in terstate superhighways, selected largely for their importance tn national defense. And it would continue, for the first year, the present program under which tho federal govern ment and tho slnles together nut up almost l'a billions a year for primary, secondary and urban roads on a 50-50 matching basis : .'4:7'',' mJ vi 1 :'..: - mw " . i Soviet YouSis Helping On Dam Construction MOSCOW (A More thon 10, 000 youths have been sent by Komsomol, the Communist Youth League, to help speed construc tion en the big Kuibyshev hydro electric station on the lga. Tais, Soviet news agency, an nounced that mow JJian 6,000 "volunteer" wad already arrived Site Approved NEW fORK un- The site of the old Tomba New York's widely known jail, now torn down has been approved for a nev city and municipal courts building. NEA TllAphoto THEY'LL STUDY SOVIET FARMS Meeting at the State DepartmeBt in Washing ton is the 12-man agriculture delegation which will visit Russia on an exchange basis to study Soviet agriculture. Seated, left to right: Ferris S. Owen, Newark, O.; John M Jacobs, Phoenix, Ariz.; W. V. Lambert, U. of Nebraska; Dr. William Reed, Greens boro, N. C. Standing: Ralph A. Olsen, Ellsworth, la.; David G. Johnson, U. of ChU cago; Charles J. Hearst, Cedar Falls, la.; Asa V. Clark, Pullman, Wash.; John M. Stcd dom, Granger, la.; Loren K. Soth, Des Moines, la.; Herbert W. Pike, Whiting, Iat; and J. M. Kleinerm, Nampa, Idaho. if Russell Offers New Draft Plan Revision By EDWIN B. HAAKINSON or The AiaocUtrd Press ' A maximum of seven eclipses, visible someplace on earth, can occur in one year cither five of the sun and two of the moon or four of the sun and three of the moon. WASHINGTON W-Sen. Bus-I sell (I) Ga) proposed Wednesday a, new revision of the military re servo plan strongly urged by President Eisenhower and the Pentagon. As he outlined it in an inter view, it would include a volun teer system for teen age reserv ists but would omit authority for compulsory reserve drills for past and present service veterans. The Pentagon has asked for both features. I believe this is closer to what the administration wanted than I first thought," said Russell, chair man of the Senate Armed Serv ices Committee. CLOSED SESSION He called the commitlce into closed session Wednesday to vote on details of the legislation aim ed at building up a combat-ready reserve of 2,900,000 by M60. Russell has maintained that it is unfair to require former serv icemen to serve with active re servo units while many other young men never don uniforms The Pentagon asked originally for authority to give discharges other than hnnorablo to any such man who does not keep up his re serve obligations. The House turned down this request, hut did vole for authonfy to recall such men for active duty of up to 45 days. SPEC IAL BONUS In lieu of eilher of these forms of compulsion, Russell has pro posed a special bonus for service veterans who agreed to under take active reserve duty. There has been no Senate dis pute over the administration pro posal to allow as many as 250,000 draft-age youths yearly to volun teer for six months' special active training. They would agree to serve 7'A years more in the re serve, and would be exempt from the regular draft. The current draft service is two years. Russell offered to make these changes in the bill passed by the House: Eliminate a provision saying youths could not volunteer for this special reserve until they had completed high school or attained 19. The- Pentagon proposed to open the plan to all youths from 17 to 18 Ms. Permit trainees to be assign ed to National Guard units. The House junked such a provision after an earlier version had been amended on the floor to bar as signment of reservists to Guard units which practice racial segregation. Eliminate a House Provision that cut the present eight-year re serve obligation to six years for men who had been drafted volunteered since the date of the Korean truce, July 27, 1953. Farm Experts Off to Russia NEW YORK (W 'A delegation of 13 American agricultural ex perts left New York Tuesday night for a goodwill inspection tour of farms in the Soviet Union. The farmers, agricultural col lege men and government of ficials promised to keep "open minds and unplugged ears ' dur ing their visit. A similar delega tion from Russia will tour the Midwest U.S. farm belt at almost the same time. Dean William E. Reed of the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College, the only Negro iiulhe group, said he would keep a lookout for any racial problems in the Soviet Union. Radio Moscow said Tuesday night the Russian tour had left for the United States. The Rus sians are expected to arrive in Washington Saturday or Sunday. The Americans were scheduled to land in London Wednesday. DixorYates Ccfsts Mulled More Fuel Added ' To Lengthy 'Battle WASHINGTON Sen. Gore (D-Tenn) said Wednesday any, fte sie by thg end of June agreement oy ne .nirou A bi drive to t the youngsters to pay contract cancciTaffon fees out or summer work on bigmam 10 -.ne uixon-iH.es mimy BuF jccU announced months would be "sulfjcct to searching "V inquiry" by Congress. He sai the Atomic Energy Commission could use only, funds appropriated by Congress to re imburse Dixon-Yates for costs claimed under the contract Pres ident Eisenhower has ordered cancel!. Atty. Gen. Browncll said Mon day a settlement would hf ne gotiated with Dixon-Yates. But he said he could not estimate what cancellation costs might come to. There have been esti mates Dixon-Yates .might -seek several millions of dollars. Meanwhile, a Senate Antitrust subcommittee probing the con tract called the entire Securities and Exchange Commission to try to find out if the White House nterfered with the timing of hear ings on Dixon-Yates financing plans. REFUSES TO SAY SEC Chairman J. Sinclair Arm strong Tuesday refused to say Miy the commission suddenly ordered a three-day postponement of a Dixon-Yates hearing. He would not say whether someone in the White House directed the! delay. He insisted this was a con fidential matter. The SEC hearing, which in volved proposed Dixon-Yates : bond financing, was set for June; 13. But the SEC met at Arm strong's direction early that morn ing, and told hearing examiner James G. Ewell to put off the session. It resumed June 16. Sen. Kcfauver (D-Tenn), the Antitrust subcommittee chair man, pointed out that the House was debating that week a money bill which involved the Dixon Yates matter. Some House Democrats sought to knock out of the measure a 6'4-million-dollar item for transmission line to the proposed Dixon-Yates power plant, and to devote the money instead to a new Tennessee Valley Authority steam plant. They were beaten on a vote taken June 16. Before House WASHINGTON Wl Congress has before it resolution calling the secretaries of commerce and agriculture to report upon steps being taken to expand farm weather forecasting. The Senate hn Arinntod the resolution and sent it to the ?ouse. I LS. I f Gil ta Cards Stationery 3 i f GIFT SHOP 1167 Willamette DID YOU KHOW? That Seymour's Cafe serves delicious fried mountain trout each day? EUGENE PACKING CO. . 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"It is only, I think, mistak en leaders that grow too belliger ent and believe that people really want to fight." The 69 students the President addressed informally in the White House rose garden are from 14 European countries and from Ja pan. They are in this country as part of an exchange program spon sored by the American Field Serv ice, a private organization. (7 Cuts and Bruises BANKS, Idaho Ui Edward J, O'Toolc. 34, of Nampa, drove his cement truck onto a soft shoulder of the highway near here Tuesday and plunged 80 feet down a rocky gorge into the rayette River. He clamborcd out with only a few cuts and bruises. TESTIMONY TOO LATE Kcfauver said testimony at the SEC hearing came too late to af fect the House vote. The witness scheduled for June 13 was Adolphe H. Wenzell, a former vice president of First Boston Corp., which became the financial agent for Dixon-Yates i a no-fee basis. Wemell also served as a con sultant for the Budget Bureau on power matters during early stages of negotiations leading to the con tract between the AEC and the Dixon-Yates group. Kefauverand other senators have been highly critical of his dual role. Wenzell was scheduled to re sume his testimony after the SEC witnesses finish. The Dixon-Yates plant was to have been built at West Mem phis, Ark., largely to supply power to Memphis, Tenn., through TVA lines. AEC negotiated the contract at Eisenhower's direc tion. The President decided Monday to scrap the contract after Mem phis officials convinced him the city was going ahead with its own plant and would refuse Dixon Yates power. Pringey Cleaners on The Near Westside For pick-up unit drllvrry, rh. M12I 8(h & Monroe Use Our Drive-In Diamond Ensemble by Skeie's VVa select cur diamonds carefully on the bnsos of color, brilliance and excellence of cut that only the finest moot our high roquiromonls. 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